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New election fails to clarify Spain's political future
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 27 - 06 - 2016

Spain's repeat election on Sunday failed to clarify the political future of the European Union's fifth-largest economy, with the main parties placing roughly the same as in last December's ballot, which brought six months of stalemate, according to AP.
The conservative Popular Party, which ruled for the past four years, again collected most votes in the election but still fell short of the majority of 176 seats it needs in the 350-seat Parliament to form a government on its own.
With 97 percent of the votes counted late Sunday, incumbent prime minister Mariano Rajoy's party earned 137 seats in Parliament. That is better than the 123 it won in December but still means it will need allies if it wants to govern. Its earlier efforts to find support from rival parties after December proved fruitless.
The center-left Socialist Party placed second, collecting 22.75 percent of the vote and 85 seats, according to the count by the country's Interior Ministry.
That was five fewer seats than six months ago but the Socialists kept their influence by fending off a challenge from a radical leftist alliance.
Unidos Podemos (United We Can), which brings together Podemos, a two-year-old party that grew out of a grassroots protest movement, and the communists and the Greens, was third with 71 seats.
The alliance, headed by pony-tailed political science professor Pablo Iglesias, had hoped to overtake the Socialists and break the country's traditional two-party system. The Popular Party and the Socialists have alternated in power for decades.
The business-friendly Ciudadanos party came in fourth with 32 seats. Other, smaller parties won the rest of the vote by Spain's roughly 36.5 million voters.


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